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Newspaper
Canberra Times
Location
Canberra, Australian Capital Territory, Australia
Date
Jan 17, 1934
Page
4
Unreadable catalog-style notice advertises small boys Peter Pans up to 3/11, Boon Wee 3/11, Boake 3/11, ladies bloomers pink white and hats in green SW to OS Peter. Prices up to 15/6. SALE SPECIAL claims fashion goods marked regardless of cost. Come and secure genuine bargains.
A cluttered ad lists fabric goods and home textiles including Turkish squares white cloths and quilts. It promotes various cloths, tapestries, border materials, and a selection of linen and twill bleached and unbleached goods with price bids. Also features grass mats, heavy twisted yarns, wool rugs, and linoleum stock with fabric remnants offered at half price.
A vintage sale ad lists dress fabrics including plain linens 34 inches wide with multiple shades in half-pleated prints and striped haircords. It promotes cottons and silks with varied prices, noting sale terms and quantities for blouses shirts gowns and related apparel fabrics in assorted colors and weights.
An apparent hoax involved a man claiming to have found clothing and a body near a river and a suspension bridge after quarreling with his partner. Police traced the tipster who admitted it was a prank, claiming he paid for a “good joke” after an argument over a woman. Civilian searchers aided in the investigation.
About one hundred relief workers walk out at Granville Park Improvement scheme in Sydney after a dispute with the Public Works Department. They allege engineer Turner rejected his authority and many workers refused to continue, while around forty other men stayed at work. Talks with management ongoing as strike spreads.
A musical spectacle at the Capitol Theatre features Broadway to Hollywood telling a family vaudeville lineage from early days to modern times with stars like Inch Templeton Barney Fagan and Nelson Eady. The program includes The Mach of Times and Hoota with Milton Sills and Clare Howton among others plus Inner at Eight as the week’s top attraction.
In Canberra Court yesterday Colonel J T H Goodwin presided over cases of Charles Patrick Fitesimmons a labourer fined five shillings for drunkenness in Kennedy Street Kingston on January 16 and a further ten shillings plus a month imprisonment for indecent language. Joseph Reeves aged 81 a labourer was fined ten shillings for drunkenness in Kennedy Street Kingston on January 15 or in default imprisoned.
A historic lunging shift in Asia uses mechanical tanks to replace elephants in logging. The Large land machines haul timber with steel cranes and cables, cutting costs as elephant use declines. Industry reports note a 40 percent drop in elephant prices and rising demand for forestrial tanks.
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